OMG I've actually got over 650 books!!

[diamantegal]

652 to be precise. How the hell did that happen? Okay, so that includes the entire Chalet School, Famous Five etc, but it also doesn't include any of the non-fiction. And they're all mine - I didn't even count DH's.

The worrying thing is that there are a load I haven't even read, and at least 6 that I've got two copies of. . I blame the Book People box sets for that one.

So please reassure me that I'm not alone. And help me find a house with a library so I can find space for them all rather than all the double stacking I've got going on at the moment!

[DogMa1]

I had 2 thousand books when I had to downsize drastically. I now have 1900 in storage and have somehow acquired 2033 kindle books I panic unless I have several books on hand waiting to be read...

[Poppycat81]

650 books is a great place to start. Keep collecting and just pass them on to your kids when they're older.

I have roughly 1000 books, not including my boys' books, I've read most of them.

[Negcap]

Discovered not so long ago that although I will never ever give up on my many books - when it came to unpacking the twenty-first book box after a housemove - I gave in and gave away a few - books not boxes of books. Then I counted up how many on the Kindle...oh dear, no-one but me is ever going to know...

[mydogisthebest]

I think we have about 1,000 most of which are mine. We moved not long ago and I did try to sort my books out but failed miserably. The removal men could not believe how many boxes said "books".

In our old house we had a spare bedroom with shelves almost floor to ceiling on all walls which had our books on. We have not yet sorted out proper places in the new house for them.

We have some friends who own a chateau in France. It is quite small and looks like an English castle. It has a moat and working drawbridge. Although beautiful the only thing I am envious of is that the have a library with beautiful wooden shelves all round and a wooden ladder which slides around the room - the room is circular as it is in a tower!

[Doobydoo]

gymraes

[Doobydoo]

As you can see..you are not alone! I have literally billions When we moved here dp suggested I get rid of some,so I did, and have now bought them all back gradually I also have hundreds on kindle. We have been away for a few days and visited 2nd hand bookshop.I bought 10 and dp 2. He has about 20 books

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

Is that one of the reasons that he's an ex bertielab?

[bertielab]

I've got over 3000 in this house and my ex husband made me cull about about 1000 5 years ago.

I do't drink I don't smoke -but boards games and books -bring them on.

Love it.

[nyu82]

We have around 10,000 as my OH and I are readers and both children studied English Language and Literature at Uni ...daughter going on to do Masters and PhD...both are writers now...I am doing regular trips to charity shops now as we are planning to move...
Bloody love my books and it kills me to de-select them but I have to be realistic..

[morningconstitutional2017]

I've got loads of books too but due to a shortage of space probably not as many. I try to read and pass on when I can.
My dream is to have a library room - floor to ceiling shelves full of books books, books and when I become a millionaire this will happen! Ha, ha.

[CoolCarrie]

I’ve got about 900 books including the stuff on my kindle, my ds has 400 in his bedroom and there are aleast another 800 or so in study and another 1000 or so at mums house. My dh surprised me by having shelves fitted in our wee sitting room, for my birthday one year, they are floor to ceiling, and stuffed full! I just need some library steps and I’ll be in paradise! Still go to the library once or twice a month as well.

[InMySpareTime]

I had over 3000 books last time I counted, I have read all but the 30 on my TBR shelf. All the rooms in the house have some books in, except the bathroom, and all the books are shelved alphabetically (or by Dewey Decimal for non-fiction).
DD knows that when she leaves home her room will become the library.
Books are the best kind of furniture, and my only regret is that I have run out of shelveable walls.

[Ginburee]

I have books everywhere and a pile of around 50 to read. That doesn't include all the books on my kindle, the children's books or my audible books.

[dragonara53]

I now have about 250 books on my bookcase. And now about 10 on my kindle. I have just deleted quite a few that I have read.

[Spiderbabe13]

I have lots of books and keep buying them.i refuse to part with any.i have a real variation in book a from Harry potter,Jane Austen,books for cooking to alternative remedies and paganism/witchcraft.i love to read and in turn my kids love to read too.we need a room that can be books from floor to ceiling.once you get the bug for it you just can't stop it's a healthy obsession.

[NobodyKnowsTiddlyPom]

I have probably well over 2000 books in my house, and that’s not including the music books. I’ve probably given away about 500 in the last few years too. I tend to read on my kindle these days as my arthritis is a bit unforgiving of dead tree books and having to hold them open.

[gymraes]

Can't possibly count how many books DH, 'kids' & me own. I counted 52 of mine (yet to be read), stacked by my side of the bed. Every night after switching off the bedroom light, I would stub my toe on one particular tome. When I eventually decided to move them I found the toe-bashing culprit was "Clear Your Clutter The Feng Sui Way"...

[jeapurs54]

I am so like you. I had over 1000 books and now we are going to have to move so I am trying to part with some of my books. I am finding this very difficult as there are quite a lot that have not been read. Some I sent to Charity Shop and about 50+ (Enid Blyton) sent to my Grandaughters but there still seems to be lots and I also get more recent ones from the library which prevents me from reading my own. I am always being moaned at by Husband but it falls on Deaf Ears :)

[tadpole73]

Donate them to hospitals, schools. Do something worthy

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

I have 3370 on Kindle, about 80 physical cook books, about 150-200 other reference books (gardening, crochet, quilting, house stuff etc) and some physical fiction books, no more than 100.

I love my Kindle because DH used to complain about the huge piles of books hanging around, but now I have thousands all contained in a space smaller than a tiny novel.

[MercedesDeMonteChristo]

I have found my home. I have around 750 now I think and about 300 on kindle. I have been very restrained recently but this thread has reminded of my commitment to collecting Catherine Cookson and Agatha Christie.

[ShineOnHarvestMoon]

I’ve twice bought a bigger house for my books. I’d guess I’m heading to around 10,000. My builders reinforced the joists for my study, my library room and my sitting room so my books are accommodated safely. Half of them are in my study at work, thank goodness.

[Loonoon]

I recently cleared out about 800 which leaves me with about 250 that I couldn’t bear to part with. DH has about 700. And together we share n Amazon digital library of 1394. Which is why I could clear so many out as they were duplicated Kindle/paper versions.

And about 150 ‘ professional’ texts.

[diamantegal]

Shine I didn't just count them. I also spreadsheeted them with a random number generator to determine the order in which I read re-read them. So far I've managed 2

[ShineOnHarvestMoon]

652 to be precise

So few that you can count them? Amateur.